Reason and Education: Essays in Honor of Israel Scheffler

✍ Scribed by Harvey Siegel (auth.), Harvey Siegel (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Israel Scheffler is the pre-eminent philosopher of education in the English-speaking world today. This volume collects seventeen original, invited papers on Scheffler's philosophy of education by scholars from around the world. The papers address the wide range of topics that Scheffler's work in philosophy of education has addressed, including the aims of education, cognition and emotion, teaching, the language of education, science education, moral education, religious education, and human potential. Each paper is followed by a response from Scheffler himself.
The collection is essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary scholarship in philosophy of education, or with the place of this singularly important author in it.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Editor’s Introduction....Pages 1-6
Rationality and Human Dignity — Confucius, Kant and Scheffler on the Ultimate Aim of Education....Pages 7-18
Critical Thinking and Foundational Development....Pages 19-41
The Cognitive Emotions and Emotional Cognitions....Pages 43-57
Rational Passions and Intellectual Virtues. A Conceptual Analysis....Pages 59-71
In Praise of Objective-Subjectivity: Teaching the Pursuit of Precision....Pages 73-87
Reason in Teaching: Scheffler’s Philosophy of Education “A Maximum of Vision and a Minimum of Mystery”....Pages 89-101
Teaching, Reason and Risk....Pages 103-111
Language: Definition and Metaphor....Pages 113-124
Is There a “Language of Education”?....Pages 125-138
National Goals for Education and The Language of Education ....Pages 139-148
(Re)Inventing Scheffler, or, Defending Objective Educational Research....Pages 149-158
Scheffler Revisited on the Role of History and Philosophy of Science in Science Teacher Education....Pages 159-173
In Defense of Israel Scheffler’s Conception of Moral Education....Pages 175-187
Israel Scheffler’s Ethics: Theory and Practice....Pages 189-200
Israel Scheffler on Religion, Reason and Education....Pages 201-223
Reflections on Israel Scheffler’s Philosophy of Religion....Pages 225-240
Total Quality Management: A Plan for Optimizing Human Potential?....Pages 241-258
Replies....Pages 259-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-276

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Education